01
Jul
What Literature Gets Right About Stories Of Refugee Experiences
There is a difference between writing about refugees and writing about people who are refugees. The first produces documentation. The s...
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01
Jul
The Challenges In Cross-Cultural Romantic Relationships, And What Fiction Teaches Us About Them
Love does not resolve differences. It reveals it. When two people from different cultural backgrounds build a relationship, they discov...
01
Jul
How Multicultural Relationships Are Portrayed In Fiction Books, And What They Get Right
Fiction has always been one of the most honest mirrors the world has to offer. And when it comes to the question of how multicultural r...
01
Jul
The Voices That Changed The Story – Celebrating Middle Eastern Female Voices In Literature
There are stories that have always existed but were told through the wrong voices. The history of literature is, among other things, a ...
10
Jun
Why Arabic Fiction In English Is One Of The Most Important Literary Conversations Today
There is a conversation happening in world literature right now that many readers are only beginning to notice. Arabic fiction in Engli...
10
Jun
Female Middle Eastern Authors Who Are Defining Modern Literature
The most important writers working in any tradition tend to be the ones who are willing to say the things that the tradition has prefer...
05
May
The Stories That Change You – Novels About Personal Transformation
There is a particular kind of book that does not simply entertain you. It finds something buried inside you, something you were not sur...
05
May
Who Are You, Really? The Power of Novels About Cultural Identity
There is a question that follows you across borders, across languages, and across the years. It is not always spoken aloud, but you fee...
05
May
Why Cultural Heritage In Literature Matters More Than Ever
Every story is an act of preservation. When a writer sets a novel in a specific place, in a specific time, and fills it with the textur...
05
May
What It Really Means to Be a Literary Fiction Author
People sometimes ask what makes a novel literary. It is a fair question, and the honest answer is that the label matters far less than ...